Not exactly. Verizon (dba Empire City Subway) already ran trunk fiber throughout most of the city. The hard part is 'the last mile' getting the fiber from the street into a building.

The property owner is responsible for that cost, which can be in the thousands. Most consider it not worth it, since they don't get any thing else in return. Large buildings will work out a deal with Verizon to subsidize the cost in exchange for a bunch of new accounts or business exclusivity.

they’re halting the number of NEW licenses for FHV. doesn’t affect current black car drivers who can still renew without a problem. black cars don’t have surcharges like the ride share apps do when they’re in high demand.

You dont have the right to get water or electricity or have a telephone. Its a private company, not the government. You dont have the right to participate in modern society if you support le drumpf! Wow, ok guess you actually like fascism when its on 'your side'.

[This torrent](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44b9575c20298869d7a8170788ba958e88acb0df&dn=National%20Guideline%20Clearinghouse&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.open-internet.nl%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce) has about 88% of the summaries in xml format for both guideline.gov (NGC) and qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov (NQMC) The remaining 12% are just throwing errors and may not be able to be saved before the site goes down.

There are open-source alternatives to WhatsApp, like Riot, Signal or Telegram (which is "open-codebase" at least). If you don't like what WhatsApp is doing, use the alternatives? However, it is in WhatsApp's complete right to do everything to protect their brand. Whether this CnD should and will go through is another question, but if it turns out that these apps indeed have violated WhatsApp's brand then all should be done to help WhatsApp protecting it.

"Everything should be open-source" is exactly like communism; sounds good, doesn't work.

> it is in WhatsApp's complete right to do everything to protect their brand

First, this is obviously not true; they have to operate within the law. Second, doing things like this, while it might be legal, doesn't mean it's not shitty behavior. A large entity can frequently bully smaller ones with bullshit legal claims simply because the costs of fighting and winning and/or the risks of losing are too great for the smaller one to bear. This is the basic problem with SLAPP suits and patent trolling.

This should absolutely be disincentivized through shaming, if nothing else—this is bad for consumers.

> Whether this CnD should and will go through is another question,

If you read the article, you'd know it's garbage.

Further, your language suggests that you don't know how the legal system works; a CnD from a private party is a warning and a request. It doesn't "go through". To enforce the request, a company would have to get an order from a court (probably as the result of a lawsuit).

> if it turns out that these apps indeed have violated WhatsApp's brand

A brand can't be "violated". A trademark can, but that's not what's being alleged here.

I'll take this one step further. I've *never* seen a "bully" in a commercial gym. We're all paying time and money to be there to do something; picking on someone else doesn't fit into the equation. Also, a commercial gym will definitely kick out folks they get complaints about.

I've had several women express concern about "not wanting people too see them/make fun of when they're fat" at the gym. For me at least, there are three main reasons that I would notice you at the gym:

- you're jacked, in which case I'm checking you out because you're where I would like to be;

- you're hot; or

- you're in the squat rack or on the platform I want to use (you jerk!)

Elsewise, you're background noise.

If you're afraid to be seen at the gym, remember the Olin Miller quote: you probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

I think a number of women who are body-shy about going to the gym are afraid of the type of bully like Dani Mathers - taking cell phone snaps and posting them with mean captions on FaceBook, Twitter or some other photo sharing platform.

Interesting how that gets viewed by different people. From my perspective, that would make me feel more comfortable: she was kicked out of her gym, fired from her job, and convicted of a crime for that. That seems to me like evidence of a system with powerful disincentives for that kind of bullshit.

I've always felt like that phrase was a tacit admission of the low quality and overall undesirability of the product in question.

It's a great example of how people like to use bad analogies. :-)

At least at Google, it was more accurate: employee-only pre-releases were explicitly termed "dogfood". If you opted in, it might be a little, uh, lumpy and chunky. OTOH, you could get access to new products before they were publicly released.

Whoa nice catch I didn’t notice that. Could something bad happen if it malfunctions one day or someone messes up and opens both locks? Also this seems like one of the easiest job in the world to be lucky to have!

As a parent of several children, I totally understand. I can bribe or threaten my child into silence, but I'm not allowed to give skittles to a drunken neckbeard to get him to shut-up.

On the flip-side, I'd be fine with prohibiting children from certain flights, as long as you also designate other flights that are only for families traveling with children. I'd love to watch people pay extra so that they can play sudoku in utter silence while I get cheaper fares on an underbooked flight even if it is the Lord of the Flies booking.

I wouldn’t go as far as to use the word comedy because if you actually read these three articles, they are just promoting the idea that the science used to back up his claims are weak, which is fair to say and not wrong at all. Obviously the film has an agenda and at times it can be seen as a bit overbearing but frankly the bottom line is that eating an excessive amount of meat and dairy is not good for you. Whether you want to be someone that accepts or denies that, along with the fact that the meat and dairy industries are disgusting (i.e that outbreak of salmonella recently coming from an egg farm in Kentucky who’s 200 million eggs were swarmed by massive bugs due to feces and general uncleanliness), its just all in all an issue that needs to be addressed. Processed foods are obviously not good for you. You don’t need to be educated or have a background in nutrition to understand that, it’s just common sense. When something has more than half your recommend serving of sodium per day, it’s probably not going to be good for your body. The same goes for sugar and processed grains. It’s not rocket science, the better you eat and the better you treat your body, the longer you will live without problems. That’s not to say don’t eat meat or dairy or processed foods, just don’t eat them all the time.

hey are just promoting the idea that the science used to back up his claims are weak

No, he flat-out misrepresents a ton of stuff. The fact that something is an IARC Group I carcinogen doesn't tell you anything about how dangerous it is. He conflates eating red meat with being overweight and diabetic. He claims that cheese contains chemicals that "bind to heroin receptors" in your brain (so does everything that you enjoy). He claims egg yolks are all cholesterol and fat (they're not).

that outbreak of salmonella recently coming from an egg farm in Kentucky who’s 200 million eggs were swarmed by massive bugs due to feces and general uncleanliness

Mass production of plants has the same problem; look at e. coli outbreaks around romaine lettuce.

Processed foods are obviously not good for you. You don’t need to be educated or have a background in nutrition to understand that, it’s just common sense.

Common sense tells us the earth is flat, heavy objects fall faster than light ones, and that ships made of iron will sink. This is not, in fact, "obvious" to people who do actually study nutrition.

This only applies to actual racists, who indeed experience said callback, which is the entire leftosphere. No wonder the Democrats were behind the KKK and all segregation laws were signed by Democrat governors.

Irrespective, if you're a human capable of functioning in civil society, you should have the sense to recognize that comparing a racial group with a history of discrimination to apes is a real asshole move. If Roseanne is incapable of not bleating out shit like that, I'm a-OK with ABC or any other org saying "yeah, we don't want to be associated with you".

No wonder the Democrats were behind the KKK and all segregation laws were signed by Democrat governors.

You realize that the Democrats in that era were very much right-wing, yeah? "Dixiecrats" and all that? Maybe you should have paid more attention in your college history courses.

Hahaha, you cite some 100 year old habit as a defense for being racist today and then try to defend the Democrats’ deeply troubled history with racism by quickly erasing it and saying they’re magically all better now. Mental gymnastics worthy of Olympic gold. Truly astonishing. Just admit you see blacks as needy people who need educated white lefties such as yourself to do the thinking for them. Then you realize you are totally at home at the Democrat party, just like you would have been 100 years ago.